• Wednesday, 25 December 2024

Slovenia’s Janša: EU won’t open migration corridors for Afghans

Slovenia’s Janša: EU won’t open migration corridors for Afghans
Ljubljana, 22 August 2021 (MIA) – Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša said Sunday that the European Union will not open any European migration corridors for Afghans and won’t allow the 2015 migrant crisis to be repeated. “We will not allow the strategic mistake of 2015 to be repeated. We have to help only individuals who helped us during NATO operations and those countries guarding the EU's external border to fully protect it,” he tweeted, which was later cited by the news agency STA. In another tweet, Janša urges men in Afghanistan to take up arms and fight against the Taliban. “If women can organize and fight against the Taliban in some parts of Afghanistan, so should men. It is not the duty of the EU or Slovenia to help and pay everyone on the planet who is fleeing, instead of fighting for their homeland,” he tweeted. Slovenian officials have said that only Afghan civilians who worked with foreign forces in Afghanistan should be evacuated before they are transferred to third countries, while the rest should be taken in by the neighboring countries of Afghanistan. Slovenia has already sheltered one Afghan interpreter and his family. Another one is trying to reach the Kabul airport before being evacuated.